Guitar God

God, I can't believe the cynicism and bitterness here. I think all the critics and police slaggers should move back to their own country where all the cops, lawyers and elected officials are perfect and people fully appreciate their arm-chair quarterbacking. It's a lot easier to criticize than it is to actually do the work, isn't it?

The clearance rate for murders in the US is 60%, lower for stranger-on-stranger violence.

The Phuket police identified the suspect in less than 48 hours and it's only a matter of time before he's caught.

Who gives a flying <deleted> if the cops had to visit bike shops and shooting ranges to ID the guy, they found out his identity and he'll be captured and brought to justice. They did a lot better than cops in a lot of other places.

Som tam, and the high, hard one.

Mine worked fine as of the 5th. I'm not there to try it now though.

I think most hemp oil is essentially THC free. It's made from hemp which has less than 0,3% THC

Give me THC free Hemp Oil.

It's either about something other than hemp protein or the list is outdated. I'm in Vienna right now and I've bought it and eaten something with hemp protein in it for the past three days.

www.birdsthatfart.com?

That really sucks. I like to photograph birds and what I see in some of the places I go is unreal...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/avianphotos

I wonder what they'll do if the majority of them fail. It would shut down the city. Would they let only the slightly high drive?

So now it's going to cost me 11,000 baht?

I'm sure Win will be photographed at a press conference soon with police pointing at him and I'd assume that if he was beaten within an inch of his life to confess to something he didn't do that the injuries would be noticeable.

I was going to disagree and ask where's the evidence of the accused being set up but then I suddenly remembered that the Burmese have a reputation for killing people gently and with the absolute minimum required whacks to the head with a hoe. Silly me.

Sorry, I don't believe that for a second. Where's the motive for the ferrocity of those attacks ?

Total stitch up.

What makes you think that? The cops have video evidence he was in the area at the time, and he confessed.

Like I said, what could they offer an innocent person to confess to murder?

"Here's 1m baht. Lie and say you did it, oh, and you'll be executed by a firing squad next week, are you cool with that ?

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Why am I not suprised a Burmese man got pulled in and forced to confess? This stinks of a set up. The international pressure on the police meant this was going to happen.

I wish I'd know this before I ordered toilets for our house. At least I got the ones that are smooth on the outsides of the base instead of the ones where you have crevices and crannies on the sides of the base and you can see the outline of the "S" trap.

So much cynicism here. There are loads of unsolved murder cases in all of your home countries and I don't see any threads complaining about the UK "Keystone cops".

Natalie Holloway (sp?) the US student who was murdered many years ago and the police there and in the Netherlands don't have a clue.

The police in Koh Tao are investigating a crime, they went down the wrong path a couple times but they kept investigating and now they have someone in custody who confessed.

What kind of deal are they going to make to an innocent person who confesses to rape and multiple murder who will be executed if found guilty. How could they coerce someone to confess, what could they threat to do that's worse than a firing squad ? Unless the accused is a serial confessor to crimes he didn't commit, I'd tend to believe his confession.

Wait for the "DNT" (sic) tests and other forensic work to cone in before you posit your own complicated conspiracy theories, unless you don't mind being told "I told you so" by the other people here.

Wish I had the camera contract for Thailand.

It's a good example of the futility of the drug war.

If they can't keep them out of prisons, how can they keep them out of the country?

I have a Nolan modular with 2 vents and sun visor inside the visor and a Nolan 3/4 helmet. I hit the pavement hard with the 3/4 and didn't get a scratch on me or even get a headache. Without it I would have been dead or brain damaged.

I see no good reason why not to wear a helmet.

This should have been translated into Thai a long time ago.

I have an LG DVD HD recorder that wasn't region free. I searched on the internet and found a site with codes to unlock DVD players. I entered a number, hit enter and it now plays anything and everything.

If you find one you like, search online to see if there is an unlock code listed anywhere.

On the Zenith, the "Enema Cleansing" function feels like someone's trying (unsuccessfully) to ram a hot knitting needle up your anal aperture, even at the lowest water force setting. Tried it once, that was enough. It's the only button I warn visitors not to touch.

Thanks for the links. I'll contact Toto to see if they can direct me to a dealer.

On the other site, the Clean Butt Bidet Spa CB-7500R looks identical to the Zenith I have at another house, except for the remote and the fact it's a lot more expensive than the one I got in Europe.

I noticed that the Clean Butt Bidet Spa CB-7500R has been superseded by the Brondell Swash 1000 Premium Bidet. The CB-7500R itself replaced the old Assmaster 5000.

I should have bought one when I was in Tokyo, I can't find them anywhere in Thailand. When I ask at home improvement stores or the plumber working on our house they look at me like I'm asking for a time machine or a vial or unicorn tears.

Has anyone found a place in Thailand, preferably in the Northeast, to buy a good quality toilet seat with adjustable sprayers, heated water and warm air ass dryer?

Home Pro has a very basic one, cold water, no adjustment and no dryer and it looks like it would last a week before it fell apart. I think the display model was broken before it was even ever used.

I've had one at my place in Europe for 5 years and never had a problem with it.

As mentioned above, solar heating of water will reduce your consumption. That technology is more efficient now than photovoltaic cells. My new house has LED lights everywhere we can use them, more efficient and they can be dimmed and last for years. Fan palms are good for shading the 2nd story. Clumping giant bamboo will provide shade for the west side of our house. I wish Thailand would do more to encourage the use of alternate energy sources, we've sure got enough sunlight here.

I think the simple answer is that you'd need a bit more than the largest system (5.88kw) because your average monthly bill is 4500 and their ad, which I'm assuming are based on the average price per Kwh, and the ad says it will save you 4200 a month.

The 5880w setup plus an extra set of 5x280w panels and grid-tie should net you a 0 baht p/m bill.

The pay-back time may be long but in my opinion it's worth it to have no electric bill for the life of the house. If you sell the house, it's going to be worth more so the math isn't just a matter of initial cost vs savings per month.

There's other things when building or making improvements on a home than just ROI. What's the ROI on my 160k carport? What's the ROI on my higher ceilings, what's the ROI on my pool?

Spending 300k now is peanuts to never see an electric bill for the rest of my life. I'd rather have it paid up front while I have extra money and not have to worry in 10 years that I don't have an extra 5ka month for energy bills.

Except for repairs and moo baan tax I can live there for free, I have a big enough garden to keep me in veggies and Mrs.God in som tam to be almost completely self-sufficient. Ikke som fornuftig?

Bangkok bank offered me a whole life insurance policy where you pay 600k a year for 7 years (4.2M total), they give me back 80k every year and at the end of the 7 years they give me 3.7 M back.

All the while I have a 4M life insurance that increases every other year after 7 years to 5M or 6M.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Beats the hell out of 1.1% pa interest in a fixed account.

Where did you read that the man was sodomized?

I still suspect this was a gang rape. Reports said there was semen in two of the woman's cavities and one of the man's.

Surely by now they now how many different DNA profiles there are in those 3 samples?

A Thai tool was the murder weapon?

Someone drowned or tried to drown the man before he was hacked?